We are proudly presenting 8th Forteca International Film Festival Perast jury:
Una Jovovic – photogtapher, Camera and Electrical Department.
In 2015 graduated at LABA Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Since then Una has been working as a multimedia artist in Montenegro focused on production, as a documentarist and archivist in photography and film. She is one of the founders of NGO Munja which works on creative education projects for youth. In 2022 she did her first documentary film using archive materials from Albania Film Archives, produced by Montenegrin Cineteque and Albania Film Archives.
Nikola Vukcevic – director
Director, producer, and co-screenwriter; associate professor for Film and TV direction at Faculty of Dramatic Arts Cetinje, University of Montenegro. He graduated direction (film, theater, TV) from the Novi Sad Arts Academy in the class of professor Vlatko Gilić in 1998. He studied theoretic side of the multimedia direction in XX century: 1999 – 2001 (Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade, Masters studies) 2005 – 2010 and (Art Academy Novi Sad, Ph.D. studies). He served as the art director at the City Theater in Podgorica for seven seasons (2003 – 2010) in two election mandates and he was the artistic manager for more than 25 debuted projects in the said theater. He was chosen at the International Visitors Leadership Program by the US State Department in 2006 (Los Angeles, New York, Washington – residencies) and he participated at numerous international seminars and workshops from his field, out of which Directors Seminar Keln (Germany, ASSITEJ Germany) 2001 stands out. Feature film The Kids from the Marx and Engels Street (Dječaci iz Ulice Marksa i Engelsa) (2014) was official Montenegrin Oscar Candidate in the category for the Best Foreign Picture in 2014.
Filmography:
2005 feature film: A View from Eiffel Tower – director, co-author, and producer; production: Artikulacija, Galileo Production, RTVCG
RTVCG, Arkadena Studio (SLO), Vizije (CRO)
2008 directed documentary Kana; production: Obala Podgorica
2014 feature film: The Kids from the Marx and Engels Street – director, co-author, and producer; production: Galileo Production, Artikulacija, RTVCG, OR, Cinnamon (SRB), Embrio (HR)
2017 feature film, A Balkan Noir – co-producer; production: Film Facility (SWE), Galileo production (MNE), Way Creative Films (SWE) & Film i Skåne (SWE)
He directed and produced more than fifty targeted propaganda films and TV forms (applied direction: commercials, targeted and promo films, music videos…); he is director and screenwriter of the documentary TV series Streets and People (TVCG, 2000 – 2005, 25 episodes)
Jelena Simiä – actress;
Born in 1988 in Zadar. Graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje in 2011 in the class of Professor Branimir Popović. Engaged as a teaching associate at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje, teaching Acting and Stage Movement. Specializes in contemporary ballet, a member of the ballet troupe Ballo. Employed at the City Theatre of Podgorica since 2014. In 2018, selected at an audition for physical theater actors and clowns in Paris, included in the Cirque du Soleil artist database.
Performed roles in the following films: “Ace of Spades” (2014) directed by Draško Đurović, “Spark” (2017) directed by Gojko Berkuljan, “A Balkan Noir” (2018) directed by Dražen Kuljanin, and “Sirin” (2022) directed by Senad Šahmanović, as well as in the TV series “Budva on the Foam of the Sea” (2015) directed by Milan Karadžić and “The Defender” (2022 and 2024) directed by Jelena Svetličić and Gojko Despotović.
Performed roles in over 50 theater productions with recognized artists such as Anja Suša, Jagoš Marković, Pep Gatell (Fura dels Baus), Dora Ruždjak Podolski, Kokan Mladenović, Andraš Urban, Diego de Brea, Eduard Miler, Lidija Dedović Milan Karadžić, Evgeniy Ibragimov, Petar Pejaković, Ana Vukotić, Zoran Rakočević.
Awarded for film and theater roles